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me the balance of headlines here on our t new videos emerging from afghanistan capital showing the desperation of people trying to flee the return of the taliban. the group brief, the media author its power grab promising its seeking no revenge. just got women take to the streets to defend their right. that's which the tyler bonds pledging to protect it. although within the limits of islam, we discussed the situation with the head of the countries of the largest media company. the tyler going to trying to win hearts and minds long ways to grow before we can say that. their receptive to women on television to equal opportunity for the european union admits its money and efforts to train the african army. we're all in vain. so we gauge reaction around the world after what's been going on the last few days enough gone us on the home. politicians throughout the world should
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be smoothly haggard. that had insurance well received effects. no only was the everybody's not just a gun. this is shane. what's happening over there also is reveal the taliban commander who gave a victory speeds from the cobbles, presidential pilots. what in fact, a former long time resident of one ton of bay? ah . it's already a busy wednesday for your worldwide headlines like from go. this is all the international very was welcome to you. first today, more scenes of chaos, enough canister on of course, following the taliban takeover. hundreds of afghans including women and children, was seen chewing off outside cobble international airport on tuesday, hoping to be evacuated. a large group of locals could be seen waiting a long barbed wire petitions holding the remaining documents as plains took off in
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the distance. i was on my way for the british and for the americans, and i have my documents with me right here for at least 10 years. i work with them . now i'm in danger. as you can see, the enemy is here and that is clear to everyone. they must evacuate me from here as soon as possible. i come here 3 or 4 days in a row. there is nothing to eat in the people flee because of hunger. i have worked for 6 or 7 years in the back room at bay, and now i fled my village. uncomfortable. i don't have a house and i want to flee away from the capital. at least 2 people have been killed in a dozen more injured during a demonstration in support of the african national flag in the city of july about reports suggest the thought of an open fire on the protesters. a similar protest report he taking place in other provinces as well. meanwhile, the taliban station, its 1st news conference since it stormed cobble
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a spokesperson for the group promised an amnesty for africa to work for coalition forces. it was, in fact, one of a number of pleasures made i want to give assurances to all competitors, those on the position side as interpreters involved in military actions or those who health and civilian sectors. we have granted them all amnesty. we don't want to take revenge on anyone and those youths who are talented and from the soil. we don't want them to leave never. they are a valuable asset. they must stay in the country, god willing, and according to sherry law, we will that women work and participate in activities. women are the main symbol of our society. we respect them. women will participate in different sectors of society. although, according to this area law, meanwhile fresh videos, emotions tend to be of women protesting in cobble, demanding that rights are respected, including rights for potentially education and politics and working. promising to protect women's rights though all of this within the limits of islam,
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the taliban says it will allow them possibly to get an education and possibly to find employment. and to supposedly prove that new ways, there was a rather unprecedented event. one taliban official sat down with a female presenter for an interview with toto news, a local tv station. it's all part of a p r campaign by the taliban to present a more moderate sides of the world. earlier my colleague neal harvey discussed the new approach with the head of the country's largest media company, the muscle baton, trying to win hearts and minds. they're trying to convince a political establishment, people outside the taliban movement to join and support the taliban movement that are trying to secure international support. so i think it's a bit early. it's a bit too early to just to what the long term intentions are. there will be a transitional government know that they may be more restrictive and eventually they'll be in emerett at the top on have their way. so long ways to go before we
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can say that they're receptive to women on television or to equal opportunity for math. kind of how do you feel about freedom of speech? enough canister, the moment you kind of the optimistic maybe you feared the worst when the taliban came into power. but how are you feeling at the moment? no, i'm feeling neither. i think it's too early and we can't be naive to assume that they have changed for good freedom of speech is not just on reporting on facts. i mean they, they believed that gods on their side. and the holy koran is the constitution. and then they can never be challenged in time. they will need to be need to get challenged and we'll see how much capacity they have for criticism when that happens. too, too, too early. and we have months and months ahead of us to see if they actually their, their actions match the words. it's understandable. we sent an awful lot of people fleeing heading for the airport. it's been tragic at times,
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watching the people that tends to get out of you have any of your stops saying look, you know, we just not comfortable with this. we, we want to go. yes we have and there are many who want to stay on and continue their work and some who wish to get that. i mean, what the taliban do in the, in the coming weeks will determine what people do in the years. i had this, this sort of this, this middle class, this youth was, you know, 60 percent off for november the age of 20. and they can, they can make or break the country. and if they leave, we lose our educated class. so really it's up to the top line in terms of how they behave and their behavior is going to impact what people do in the months ahead. well, the new look taliban has also failed to convince the use foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, who call to dialogue with the group to prevent a humanitarian crisis. but also making clear that does not mean international recognition. the taliban is of course, still listed as
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a terror organization. by much of the world, mister burrell admitted all the time and effort invested in the country over the past 2 decades had all been in vain. anyone has been surprised. they did fall in a few days, and i mean, we had to spend a lot of money and a lot of effort drain and found enough shot given that has been surprised, right. of course you leaders are growing increasingly worried about the situation in afghanistan, ultimately fearing the chaos could wind its way up to europe in a deluge of refugees. first have to discuss how to accommodate people in they bring countries and then move forward. the next step would be to look further afield, but a european solution would certainly be difficult. we haven't yet managed to create a common is our policy. now, despite miracles, concern about the human crisis and the potential impact that they could have on europe, she did manage to find time to attend,
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to form premier in berlin. and this is despite the criticism that so far, gemini has only evacuated save and of its national from cabal. at the same time, a number of leaders are very pessimistic. you have, for example, the check president, my list zeeman, who had said that nature failed enough, got it done. and it's legitimacy has now been brought into question. the distrust towards native from a number of member countries will grow after this experience because they will say if you failed and again, it's done. whereas the guarantee that you won't fail in any other critical situation as well. austria, it has cold on neighboring countries to have done to set up people taishan centers as a way of handling immigrants that are attempting to flee the taliban. also, of course, is maintaining a very hard line stance when it comes to immigrants. you then have turkey, which is in the final stages of building a 295 kilometer roy along the border with the ran to prevent african refugees
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from entering that country. the nato secretary general said the priority for nato was as follows. nato's focus right now is to ensure the safe departure or personnel from ally the important countries and of the africans who have helped us. very good miss that europe was surprised at the speed of the political and military collapse of the cobble government. it was something that they had not anticipated. he also said that he was frustrated that after years of international assistance, the results were to quote him, not better. well, i've got nathan's plight come with under the microscope and the latest episode of our going underground program. it's where we hear the thoughts of political commentator jimmy door that's coming away in full data today. but for our very quick preview, you want a u. s. intervention a military intervention. tell me about which country you want the u. s. intervening . and i think it's about, i mean, because
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a lot of people are saying we need to stay in afghanistan to help the women. i say, how about the united states takes about 3 or 4000 troops and invades los angeles and brings health care and medical aid, and shelter to the 60000 homes, people in, in los angeles. how about we invade the inner cities of america? and we bring health care to those people. we bring shelter to those people. we bring medicine to those people. we bring counseling to those people. how about we invade america? and we start trying to help america. when is, when is america going to care about the women? and, you know, one out of 5 kids in america lives in poverty. so if you want to help people, why don't you give women and children want to have women, a living wage in the united states give them health care and give them an education? i radically, that's what the government up gavin than did up until we invented the taliban. ah, well,
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the protests have gathered in london condemning the u. k. governments responds to the events in august on, according for those still stuck in the country to be brought back to the u. k as quickly as possible. as kate partridge now reports pritchard faced afghans, i'm supposed to be including m. p 's and the stop the war coalition gathered outside parliament ahead of the debate on us. got his son very appealing to the government to bring those who served the british and american forces in afghanistan to the u. k. to protect them from the taliban on tuesday night, the government said the u. k. will take up to 20000 refugees over the coming years . a number which home secretary pretty battelle not says could more than double put opposition figures want to see the plan behind the promises. i'm hoping that the government will both explain the chaos of the evacuation will agree on a much larger number of refugees, counties this come to the support for them, dropped the anti refugee rhetoric pretty battelle has been in the past few months
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on a global give us something thing. they're going to learn the foreign policy lesson . britain, after all, as returns to the training the afghan. i. britain, after all, set up a training cool to the army and the result has not been a good. meanwhile, the taliban has gone on to pay our offensive to win over hearts and minds and that political leaders have also promised women will have rights. according to sherry, a law, an amnesty for those who work for foreign powers and quote, fears about housing extremists. but relative to those still enough down, it's done skeptical. i'm fearful. i came here about 1718 years ago because of these people are now in my home, and i'll tell you when we call it on our back office one years circling of people. everyone. and you got back in the same spot us when years ago you watching tv killing people. schools are close again. the one was congo outside again, which was 20 years ago. so this is just
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a waste of money in which the government didn't you will you have to watch some retails people are just talking from a to playing a watch. fear of valuable is no fear. nobody will run like this to the runway. grabbed the aeroplane. and just fly with them over and he dropped dead they they, they, they will happy to die like this not by tele, one. in cobb all the streets are reportedly com militants, mounting checkpoints, and military flights. evacuating diplomats and civilians have restarted at the airport. us president joe biden has defended the decision to polite of afghanistan and these protests, i hope the diplomacy will work long term in a country where military intervention happens and thousands have been killed or injured. we need to be thinking very, very seriously about the lessons from the park and what they mean to the foreign policy, the future. and i think it's a day that it's a day of reckoning really. and it's the day in which the politicians need to action
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for the 1st time since 2001 think hard and think about the damage that they've done in the series of far more stuff taken place. and they really need to learn the lesson. we have to end this talk to the rules. we have to end this aggressive foreign policy in light of the recent events, many are questioning whether the allied forces turned back on the country by withdrawing the troops. so we quit people on the streets of new york and london. the whole politicians throughout the world should be smoothly hanging their head in shame. who was helping absolutely disgraceful with cd effects no longer. it was the, everybody, not just a gun to some european america. everybody was and it has created a great deal of difficulty for people working there. and obviously for the native a people are going to stand shame what's happening over there, but have dentist and they've been fighting for 102 years.
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the fact that we've been over there for 20 years, we really haven't stabilize the country. there's no reason for us to be over. there are the women that are left behind. i know what it says. you know the taliban regime thing that they will allow women to have the freedom that they've enjoyed have 20 years. but i don't or let's course live now to the un secretary general's deputies, special representative for the for i've got missed on your say. i mean, i like a bottle of joining us here. life when you to national it's good to see you today. so i understand you are currently in cobble at the moment. do you feel safe? what is the security situation there? now? there is gradual improvement or distractions which we have seen throughout the country. in some places, schools are the opening and providing us or apps in those settings. and it also helps you to do able to reach for the health facilities yesterday with the delivery
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of a call. so i would say that we are now experiencing a better access and are able to reach you to greater number of what's about your staff, the un stuff work is, are they still in the country or have you evacuated them out? already? united nations oldest maintains the presents we are present in the country. we continue to operate throughout our staff, these agencies, and also been more than 106 partners from humiliating organizations currently present. what about a she monetary needs right now. obviously the country remains in a state of shock. is it an issue of water, food, electricity? what is the humanitarian situation right now? and are you able to help? are me in tradition remains to be their county. i have suffered wrong conflicts
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bore and not deals as consequences of displacement. about half a 1000000 plus 600000 according to this assessment on displace country is next to me that difficult to draw the situation. so are displacement a couple, 2 factors, and then obviously you have at least half of the children and a non to the age of 5 in the severe marsh conditions. and the population overall is very vulnerable. so we're talking about 18000000 people need our funding. unfortunately has not been commenced need since the beginning of the year. been asking for $1300000.00 around $0.88. now as, as we all know, the taliban has already state a press conference where they've come out saying that they're interested in
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protecting women's rights within the framework of islam. they've also said that they won't go go door to door trying to go into people's homes. they've also been collecting weapons saying that innocent civilians and i've kind of on don't need weapons. but we've also heard report that there are locals who say they are now living in fear with a resurgent taliban. is it a danger for the locals there? and how many people are that fearful? is it a majority of the population or less? what i'll do is we'll have to see how the events fall. and we will have to see the violations or reactions they take place rather than the place. and for all of this, we will need some time. we obviously will continue back nation can't on the solid putting here, women rights are essential. gender qualities essential and respectful of human rights and essential elements for us to be able to function and to be able to
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deliver a we've heard the british prime minister bars johnson. we've also had justin trudeau of canada saying that basically that not really ready or willing yet to recognize the taliban as a political entity on the world stage. however, as i'm sure you know, the taliban did have a delegation that was recently welcomed in china by the chinese foreign minister in t on gen. how is the taliban as a political entity going to move forward on the global stage to try and get political traction to try and get political legitimacy? as humanitarians, we engage since 18 years and we are working with them on the basis of the united nations human, which is impartial. recognizing the need of united issues. the people understood that people are going to start move on to reference to, to the tracking number for us
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or who is in power, you know, of them. so we continue to engage based on that particular matter which you did for your question. it's a political process and i'm local. but as you were saying regarding the humanitarian crisis, obviously you're not alone in this situation. are there a number of other countries that are stepping forward to help with the she mandatory 8 and i've gone on our largest computer just to the day united states of america, which is more about a half to see we are making and appealing to all nations including major donors to step up that you should continue to respond to that sufficient require funds. and right now is the fun. i mean it's alex bought off the un secretary general's deputy special representative for going to san joining us live from cobble. thank you very much. we wish you the best of luck with your humanitarian
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mission. thank you. thank you. and thank you for joining us so far amid the dramatic event. so the last few days, it's only recently come to light that one of the taliban top commanders who stormed the presidential palace. and the capitol was actually a former resident of a notorious one ton of obey prison camp. to meet you pout, takes a closer look. if the situation and i guess that wasn't already a disaster showcasing the shortcomings of us foreign policy and appetite for regime change. well, it turns out one of the taliban leaders who gave a celebratory speech from couples presidential palace was none other than a former guantanamo detainees. who was released as a quote medium risk. guess seriously, of all the people, the u. s. torture in guantanamo this was one of the guys deems thought, really dangerous, and let go meet gold roo honey. one of the 1st detainees at guantanamo in 2002,
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he was captured by us forces on suspicion of being a taliban security officer. during his time and get more ru honey, maintain that he was, quote, a simple shopkeeper who tried to help americans. so some 5 years later or 8, according to ronnie he was released on the promise that he just wanted to help is sick father won an appliance store and couple fast forward to 2021 and he's a taliban commander leading the take over of cool. so either the u. s. intelligence was, well not really intelligent, and lana taliban radical full one over them and lie his way out of the hands of the ca, or it was the time to spend and get know that actually radicalized the simple shopkeeper into a taliban fanatic. don't say for the to me were innocent. indeed, because he lived and they've got to stop and was captured on or near the battle area. he must know something of importance. well, apparently all the torture and human rights violations that get mall,
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and other us detention centers turned out to be all for nothing. sure, they apparently got some good and fell out of some of the detainees. but on the other hand, the ones that they let go went on to became terrorist leaders. yeah, ronnie isn't the only detain eastern terrorist boss. there's a whole list there is the 5 taliban leaders that obama swapped for an american desert are these leaders were promised to never see a battlefield again. and that would be held in guitar far from again, a stand regardless of circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be. we still get an american soldier back if you seldom kept it period full stop yet somehow there. now apparently the masterminds behind the current take over a couple. one of them is even a part of the official delegation of the taliban. he even took part in negotiating the us withdrawal from janice. then earlier this year. we'll see. then there are the isis super terrorists, for example, leap in from us all buck daddy,
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the former leader of isis. he was captured in 2004, held in detention at a u. s. facility and iraq for 10 months. let go and went on to have a successful career and terrorism becoming the head honcho of the big bad, isis. he was a street thug. when we picked him up in 2004, it's hard to imagine we could about a crystal ball, then that would tell us he'd become head of isis. yeah. if only you could have seen that coming anyway. and then there's this guy who was a valuable inform and during his time at the hands of us intelligence, our that was a song but unique talents, inability. and now he's no less than the current leader of isis. replacing albert, daddy turns out he was just using the us to get rid of the competition for the top spot amongst terrorists. another big wolf's, this is kind of beginning to seem like a trend. now, basically, not only did the us fail to recognize dangerous radicals when they were right there
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their hands, they apparently even managed to embolden and help radicalized people who probably wouldn't have posed any threat if it weren't for having an encounter with some american intelligence officers. in the end, america seems to be fighting problems itself created and so many that doesn't even come as a shock. well, it's all about, it's not only got his hands on former us prisoners, but also it's weaponry. biden's national security adviser admitted american alms on hardware have been captured by the militants. so there are many other suggest they will either left or gifted. those black hawks were not given to the top one. they were given to the afghan national security forces to be able to defend themselves. we don't have a complete picture, obviously of where every article of defense materials has gone by. certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the taliban. and obviously we don't have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport. well,
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i recent comments by us officials show washington was shocked by the speed in which the taliban stays a total ralph of the country and it remains unclear what to do next. even well drawn plans don't survive 1st contact with reality. this is happen more rapidly than we anticipated here i, there is chaotic situation in cobble where we don't even have the establishment of a governing authority. when you're at a point where things are happening more quickly than anyone would have anticipated, then you're going to have some chaotic scene slash you listen to us officials discussing at ghana. stan, they don't seem to be providing real information and seem to be emphasizing that they don't have a clear picture of the answers. the questions they're being asked. we are seeing us officials try out an old tried and true method flap on some sanctions and hope everything works out. i am not going to go into the full planet panel play of things that we can do,
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but there are obviously issues related to sanctions. there remains to be seen whether or not the taliban really cares about us. sanctions, however, washington has made clear is not going to sacrifice any more american lives on the altar of democracy in afghanistan, however, national security adviser sullivan did make clear. he cares deeply about afghan women, truly deeply. my heart goes out to ask in women and girls in the country today under the telephone. so amid confusion, as the global community looks on the situation in afghanistan as a lot of questions for us leaders about what they did know and didn't know and what's going to happen in the future. i'm sure everyone is totally reassured by these answers that have just been provided by washington. officials the
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